The following article by Janet Moore was posted on the Star Tribune website May 1, 2017:
$10M in federal budget deal seen as a sign the full $928M will be OK’d for Southwest rail.
The Southwest light-rail line was allocated $10 million in the temporary federal budget being considered by lawmakers in Washington — news that the Metropolitan Council says is a sign the project will win its full $928 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) later this year.
The fate of the $1.9 billion line, which would connect downtown Minneapolis to Eden Prairie, had been unclear since President Donald Trump’s initial transportation budget proposal did not fund new mass transit projects in the fiscal year. Without the federal money, it was unlikely that Southwest could move forward. Continue reading “Southwest LRT gets a positive sign from Washington”